Great story Roam I get what you mean about the noise - I have...

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Originally posted by roaminoz ↑

They don’t hurt ya hoots, the White Lipped Green Tree frog is just looking for light so they can pounce on some moths and what not. If you pick them up make sure your hands are wet.

When living in Cairns i use to go to a local creek overflow when the rains had set in for a few days. After about 2 weeks since the big rain event it would be getting to the stage where that area would be starting to dry up and I would collect quite a few of the green tree tadpoles. Took them home and housed them all in polystyrene boxes until they where morphing from tadpole to frogs. Then they would move into another polystyrene box. I use to collect flys for them for about 2months from decomposing meat under an ice cream container and plastic jar above. Wait an hour or so go and shake the ice cream container and all the flys would go up into the plastic jar, throw a lid on it then screw it into the polystyrene box. Frogs would wake up and all you would hear is thund thund thund until all the flies were gone. Rinse and repeat a few times a day. After the 2 months or so they were big enough to have a better chance in life and released around the house. Our house was full of them and when it rained the amount of noise coming from the down pipes off the roof was deafening.

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Great story Roam I get what you mean about the noise - I have only seen the two types so far the larger ones with the white bellies and the smaller all green ones - There is one species up here that is so loud it sounds like a barking dog , They dont seem to mind the heat during the day they just sit on a ledge out of the sun..

https://www.australiangeographic.co...beep-click-bark-australias-unique-frog-calls/

"Adding to the variety are the barking frog, bleating tree frog and growling grass frog, plus the buzzing frog, beeping froglet, clicking froglet and whirring tree frog.
We were taught as youngsters that dogs bark, sheep bleat and frogs croak."

this one is on the ledge outside the office now.
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